crooner
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Dreesen and Sinatra traveled 45 to 50 cities a year together, and the comedian said the crooner became like a father to him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
For those who think of late-career Elvis Presley as only a plump has-been, a gaudy Las Vegas crooner slinging schlock in the 1970s, Baz Luhrmann’s new movie is a bracing corrective.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Grammy-winning crooner Iglesias, 82, has made no public comments about the allegations.
From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026
This was around the time of Coogan's Portuguese crooner alter ego, Tony Ferrino.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
While he attended the races at Tanforan with Bing Crosby, the crooner found himself abandoned as fans and autograph-seekers smothered Howard.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Ms. Willetts devotes nearly an entire chapter—ostensibly on postwar nightlife in Las Vegas and Havana—to Frank Sinatra, head of America’s Rat Pack of lounge crooners and the “kingpin of ‘gentlemanly’ debauchery.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
But Oona and her friends aren't the only ones under the spell of the demon-busting crooners.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026
Springer added that he prefers classic crooners, such as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, to Bublé.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 24, 2025
If these songs existed when Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and all those crooners were alive, they would’ve beat down Will and Hue’s door to let them sing them first.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
It drew crooners like Eddie Fisher and has been cited as an inspiration for the 1987 movie “Dirty Dancing.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
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